[PDF.78jt] Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit–God K," King of Copan (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit–God K," King of Copan (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

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 | #4180591 in Books |  Newsome Elizabeth A |  2009-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  11.00 x.75 x8.50l,1.48 | File type: PDF | 294 pages

 | Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World The Serial Stelae Cycle of 18 Rabbit God K King of Copan

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Heady fascination!|By Larry N. Stout|A very scholarly overview of Late Classic Maya kingship at Copan, Honduras, perhaps the best-studied of all Mayan cities, with interesting insights into the peculiar politics at the southeastern fringe of the Mayan sphere, where non-Maya cultures figured prominently, at a time of increasing cultural stresses. Minutely explicates the epigraph|About the Author|Elizabeth A. Newsome is Assistant Professor of Precolumbian and Native American Art History at the University of California, San Diego.

Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya cities throughout the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Mute testimony to state rituals that linked the king's power to rule with the rhythms and renewal of time, the stelae document the ritual acts of rulers who sacrificed, danced, and experienced visionary ecstasy in connection with celebrations marking the end of major calendrical cycle...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit–God K," King of Copan (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)   |  Elizabeth A. Newsome.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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